In a time of email, Lonely Planet and mass media I find myself always looking for a place to go that will excite, challenge and give me perspective.
Last year I went to Myanmar (Burma). These are some of the images I took along the way.
Archive for February, 2011
My Creative Space: Myanmar, Burma
Monday, February 14th, 2011
People talk about having the travel bug. And I truly think I have it. I love to travel and always have. I think it stems from listening to my parents’ stories of travelling. Not very often but occasionally a snippet of a story would come up. Travelling in India with a budget of a $1 a day, hitch hiking in Japan, writing letters to family in Australia which would arrive weeks or months after they’d left a place.
Michaela & Matt’s St Carthage’s Wedding in Parkville
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Michaela and Matt live in London but came back to Melbourne to get married. They had a really sweet and personalised ceremony at St Carthage’s Church followed by a relaxed reception at Walter’s Wine Bar at Southbank. We didn’t venture far for their photos as we really didn’t need to! With all the rain we’d had it was so beautiful, green and lush around Parkville and Royal parade, so we set off on foot and captured the Melbourne greenery amongst the inner-city streets. As Melbourne held a special place in both their hearts, they wanted it to feature but not in a touristy postcard way. They wanted it to feature in a more subtle and heritage inspired way.
Portrait of a film maker
Friday, February 4th, 2011
And as I was saying… I get to meet some really interesting people in my line of work. Dom is a lawyer by trade but he has a passion for documentary film making. Recently he went to Mongolia and filmed a documentary there. I don’t know about you but last time I was in Mongolia I ended up lost in the Gobi desert with a blue combi 70s van as transport and a driver who we affectionately called Shamus. But that is another story…
Dom was there on a much more important mission. He was documenting the changes in Mongolia due to urbanisation. He made a documentary and magazines wanted to write about him so we took some photos for them!
In case any of you are wondering “what blue combie?”
Here are a few photos I look in Mongolia when I was there in about 2005. These are taken on film… remember those days?
Sara and Nima’s Wedding at The Prince in St Kilda
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
I like Sara and Nima’s style. They didn’t get caught up in the need to be conventional, to follow tradition or add a lot of extra faff. They just picked out what was important to them and went with it.
Sara and Nima had always planned to meet before the wedding ceremony to take some photos, so that the ceremony could run straight into the reception. We’d planned to meet in a local park for this “first look”, but just before the wedding Sara rang me and said that things were getting a bit logistically complicated, and that Nima was just going to come around to pick her up at the house. So that he did! Nima was greeted at the front door by the warm embrace of Sara and her family, which was followed by excited squeals. It was truly a unique, completely uncontrived moment. A unique moment for me to capture on camera. That is what weddings are all about—the unique moments.
It was so much fun wandering around St Kilda with Sara and Nima. They just smiled, laughed and joked the whole time. The ceremony was on the deck of the Prince, which was shared with their nearest and dearest who had travelled from all over the world to be there. The sun setting over the bay and St Kilda was the perfect backdrop for their laid-back reception.
It was a truly special day.
A big thank you to Andy for assisting me on the day. He went above and beyond when he chased seagulls around St Kilda!